tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post4486765472694169236..comments2023-10-14T04:09:50.089-04:00Comments on Who You Calling Boy? Theorizing Masculinities: Week 5: Men’s BodiesLelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640732597515957150noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-21711258496812256482009-09-24T21:49:09.189-04:002009-09-24T21:49:09.189-04:00I would also like to touch base on If men Could Me...I would also like to touch base on If men Could Menstrate. Obviously this is one thing as women we have that men will never experience. I think to myself, I wonder if men ever were jealous that we had this over them and they'd never experence it. Men do think of it as "nasty" but maybe that formd a long time ago as a cover up?! I liked the quote, "what would happen, for Merritt Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746804656222890099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-86551103203555174442009-09-24T17:45:35.716-04:002009-09-24T17:45:35.716-04:00Having grown up in a mostly single-parent househol...Having grown up in a mostly single-parent household (my parents divorced when I was 4, my mother would re-marry twice in the future), I did not have much experience comparing myself with other men. I had seen my mother's body when I was a child and knew we were different and that it was okay, my mother explained to me from early on the difference between boys and girls, body-wise atleast. jorge mendozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06702397053040768586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-82202296806697444812009-09-24T17:39:00.315-04:002009-09-24T17:39:00.315-04:00In a house with three males, my brother, my father...In a house with three males, my brother, my father and I, and one female, my mother, there was a surprising amount of ambivalence about the male body. Actually, to use the words of the prompt, it was more of a combination of privacy and ambivalence.<br /><br />My father is the son of the son of a Swiss immigrant to the United States. He grew up in a small Swiss-dominated community in Upstate NewEvan Wysshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16028449808938657306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-27343803248127917522009-09-24T17:37:48.343-04:002009-09-24T17:37:48.343-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Evan Wysshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16028449808938657306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-9694526336426881602009-09-24T15:58:31.519-04:002009-09-24T15:58:31.519-04:00My father is nothing like Bordo's father. He ...My father is nothing like Bordo's father. He walked around in his boxer briefs with no shirt all the time even in front of my friends. He drank too much and often made dirty jokes about he and my mother, while she got mad and shushed him. At one of my sister’s weddings he got drunk and said that a friend of the family was like a Jaguar and kept talking about how smoothly she danced and howAbigailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867817412799654956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-71407888322700177892009-09-24T15:47:29.075-04:002009-09-24T15:47:29.075-04:00I want to expand further on the “fetish of a male ...I want to expand further on the “fetish of a male homosexual as heterosexual imagery…within lesbian culture…in dildoes that are designed to look like penises” (Bordo, 47). My cultural artifact was such notion of heterosexual imagery, the dildo, amongst lesbian couples. I believe it is important to note that “penises, like the rest of the human body and unlike dildoes, feel things” (Bordo, 64).mixed enigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146290021954310311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-60865364262445436322009-09-24T14:46:41.096-04:002009-09-24T14:46:41.096-04:00It was brought to my attention by a few of my frie...It was brought to my attention by a few of my friends that I was going to really enjoy Susan Bordo’s prologue to The Male Body, and it was true. Although my father is not Jewish, he did grow up in Brooklyn during the 1950s and has a plethora of stories to share about that time. Vincenzo Calandruccio, my dad, has told me tales about him, “Johnny Pinstripe”, “Jamutz” playing by the johnny pump andCristoinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16616841418820054105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-75769005188800641072009-09-24T14:35:06.377-04:002009-09-24T14:35:06.377-04:00We have discussed in this class the ways that soci...We have discussed in this class the ways that society sees gender as meaning sex. They are interchangeable, according to popular notions. I am a strong believer in the societal and cultural constructionist point of view on gender. Reading Susan Bordo’s The Male Body has opened my eyes to many aspects of the biological body that I would not have otherwise been inclined to regard, seeing that I carly machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01079838635224883916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-32479089984570346872009-09-24T13:41:57.919-04:002009-09-24T13:41:57.919-04:00When discussing the male and female body we can’t ...When discussing the male and female body we can’t help but discuss the double standards involved. Men and women are judged differently on how they choose to dress and/or modify their body. Recently, I got a new tattoo on my calf, my sixth one. As I female with visible tattoos I have noticed how I am judged differently than men who have tattoos. People seem to think that I am “trashy” or should amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14532288567873665361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-71646548311983019262009-09-24T13:21:31.045-04:002009-09-24T13:21:31.045-04:00I started this post with a response to the prompt ...I started this post with a response to the prompt but it just didn’t work. Not that the prompt was bad! Quite the opposite: I found that exploring my body in relation to my father’s opened too many doors for me to explore with just one blog post. There’s enough material there for a dozen essays and short stories, so I decided to hold off and try to express my feelings on this topic in a Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805452663324383377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-24892293234389167192009-09-24T09:46:23.333-04:002009-09-24T09:46:23.333-04:00I enjoyed doing the readings and seeing Susan rela...I enjoyed doing the readings and seeing Susan relationship with her father, I feel every girl has a special relationship with her father, yet everyone is different. <br /><br />My story was different than Susan’s yet, how she said her dad was "a trim and dashing young man", I'd have to admit, my father is also. My dad has psoriases, so he has "dry, patchy skin", thankfullyMerritt Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746804656222890099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-37338734845086947212009-09-24T00:40:22.998-04:002009-09-24T00:40:22.998-04:00It's plain to see just how much Susan Bordo lo...It's plain to see just how much Susan Bordo loved and looked up to her father in reading "My Father's Body". Their relationship was very touching, and I was saddened by his passing. Her description of her father was very inspiring and she did a fabulous job of showing his quiet, introspective side compared to his jovial, loving personality. Although, as I read "My Father&#Brian H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04826071931573814224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961395393886635340.post-74136936794338301202009-09-20T23:26:12.617-04:002009-09-20T23:26:12.617-04:00Respond to The Male Body. Think about your relatio...Respond to <i>The Male Body</i>. Think about your relationship to your body in relationship to your father's (or grandfather's, brother's, etc.) body. Did your father's body and/or his relationship with his body (or lack of relationship with his body) impact the way you perceived your own body? This might include developments during puberty, body image, self-perception, sexuality,Lelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03640732597515957150noreply@blogger.com